The burden and predisposing factors of non-communicable diseases in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences personnel: a
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The burden and predisposing factors of non-communicable diseases in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences personnel: a prospective 15-year organizational cohort study protocol and baseline assessment Fariba Tohidinezhad1, Ali Khorsand2, Seyed Rasoul Zakavi3, Reza Rezvani4, Siamak Zarei-Ghanavati5, Majid Abrishami5, Ali Moradi6, Mahmoud Tavakoli7, Donya Farrokh8, Masoud Pezeshki Rad8, Bita Abbasi8, Mitra Ahadi9, Lahya Afshari Saleh10, Mohammad Tayebi11, Mahnaz Amini12, Hossein Poustchi13, Ameen Abu-Hanna14 and Saeid Eslami1,14,15*
Abstract Background: The rising burden of premature mortality for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in developing countries necessitates the institutionalization of a comprehensive surveillance framework to track trends and provide evidence to design, implement, and evaluate preventive strategies. This study aims to conduct an organization-based prospective cohort study on the NCDs and NCD-related secondary outcomes in adult personnel of the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) as main target population. Methods: This study was designed to recruit 12,000 adults aged between 30 and 70 years for 15 years. Baseline assessment includes a wide range of established NCD risk factors obtaining by face-to-face interview or examination. The questionnaires consist of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, lifestyle pattern, fuel consumption and pesticide exposures, occupational history and hazards, personal and familial medical history, medication profile, oral hygiene, reproduction history, dietary intake, and psychological conditions. Examinations include body size and composition test, abdominopelvic and thyroid ultrasonography, orthopedic evaluation, pulse wave velocity test, electrocardiography, blood pressure measurement, smell-taste evaluation, spirometry, mammography, and preferred tea temperature assessment. Routine biochemical, cell count, and fecal occult blood tests are also performed, and the biological samples (i.e., blood, urine, hair, and nail) are stored in preserving temperature. Annual telephone interviews and repeated examinations at 5-year intervals are planned to update information on health status and its determinants. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 14 Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC-Location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the art
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